what’s the longest republicans can deny quorum if you need X republicans for a quorum out of a total of Y republicans is a weirdly hard math problem
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what’s the longest republicans can deny quorum if you need X republicans for a quorum out of a total of Y republicans is a weirdly hard math problem
a labor day weekend session causing problems because everyone is gone camping is a certified oregon moment lmao
🫡 wish they’d listened!!
I appreciate your perspective and try to be self aware about the fact that most of the rest of us on here aren’t actually doing the work in the legislature
donald trump hasn’t been seen in three days because they’re currently doing this to him in an enormous chamber 20 stories deep below the white house
pov: you are an office worker in DC after JD vance triggers the third impact and stephen miller embeds the embryo of adam into donald trump’s body
I think I saw the original tweet right after I got my fish spatula and now it’s just stuck in my brain permanently
it is, in fairness, not a great name
in general though I am a strong believer in this @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com tweet
sometimes I catch myself cooking fish with my fish spatula and think: nice
endlessly glad to have senator pham fighting for transit riders and a good transportation system in the legislature; endlessly frustrated that it feels like she’s doing it alone
huge news for me personally from this table is that the city council is going to get an update on the mayor’s request to create a Citywide Incident Management System on september 20th
no update in the city administrator’s new budget note tracker on councilor kanal’s request to study residential and commercial vacancy taxes www.portland.gov/sites/defaul...
yes. this has caused consternation among the members of the legislature and I think also been a complication for mobilizing support for the bill
yeah no judgement, that channel gets promoted in your algorithm if you watch other urbanism stuff and that specific video got decent play (the urbanist promoted it at one point). it's just an annoying tic by the channel that bothers me whenever it comes up
better then than turning it off after 10 minutes when he turns into a reactionary while talking about homelessness, another classic fourth place experience
senate concludes the first reading of house bills and adjourns. no debate today!
senator mcclain speaking, reminds oregonians who are about to get kicked off their medicaid plan that at least trump doesn’t want to tax their tips
he’s right that transportation bill supporters got heavily out-organized on testimony. probably because there’s very little to be excited about here, even for professional transportation advocates
senator bonham speaking, references the imbalance of anti- and pro- testimony for HB 3991. also throws a jab at neutral testimony yesterday from move oregon forward coalition folks (hello senator) who he thinks were basically supporters
no vote expected today, per KPTV. interested to see if transit funding becomes a subject of debate though
oregon senate convenes in a few minutes to take up HB 3991, the governor’s transportation bandaid bill, after the joint transportation committee stripped 80% of the transit funding from the bill and it passed through the house earlier today
growing up my brother and I biked to school with our dad, on his way to work, for a couple years in elementary school, then in middle school and onwards started riding by ourselves every day. wouldn't have been possible without a relatively compact street grid and low traffic side streets to ride on
Transportation bill passes the House 36-12, with Javadi joining Dems voting yes and Hartman joining Rs voting now. No other surprises. #orleg
there is only one goal in play here: make democrats embarrass themselves enough that drazan gets reported on as a serious candidate for governor next year
if you have a theory of mind about christine drazan and transit you’re mistaken. she just gets up on that dais and says things, including contradictory statements about whether or not transit funding is important
how do you vote on this bill and not call out how fucked up the transit funding sunset is
seems like that would be a good use of eastside TIF money
essentially, legislators are making last minute changes whose impact they don’t fully understand, timed such that people with data to argue against the changes can’t fully prepare a response that makes it clear how much damage is being done
furthermore, this amendment was introduced the same morning it was voted on, over the weekend, with no way to gauge ahead of time how likely it was to pass. advocates who testified on the bill, including the trimet GM, had essentially no time to prepare an argument against the amendment
instead, the legislature has given trimet an additional ~70 million a year for two years, less than is required for a balanced budget. because its temporary, it’s not clear to me that it actually changes the math on service cuts at all
if the increase in the statewide payroll tax was sufficient to cover trimet’s operating deficit, as you might assume if you weren’t in the weeds on this issue, a temporary tax increase would work to delay service cuts until the next long legislative session. this is not what just happened
reading some reporting this morning and seeing social media posts from a few legislators has left me feeling extremely concerned that the magnitude of this error has not sunk in yet
causes endless confusion for me that nyc has an astoria and a rockaway beach
also agree in general that affordable housing rents tend to not be as “affordable” as people might imagine
there are a couple programs that don’t go below 60% AMI (true of inclusionary housing and the affordable housing set aside as an example), I think in context it makes a lot of sense if they were talking about IH
what’s the context for the affordable housing quotas mentioned? PHB builds quite a bit of housing below 60% AMI, can see a list here www.portland.gov/phb/construc...
interesting, it’s been a big hit in my circle
watching f1 (movie about a man whose entire life revolves around an addiction to driving he maintains at huge personal cost) to get into the minds of the oregon legislature
Looking forward to arguing about whether this is an acceptable use of a farm stand permit, next season.
worth emphasizing specifically that the temporary increase isn’t enough to avoid the cliff in the first place. we’re getting service cuts and a new deadline to avoid even further cuts
New bus purchases, for one example, can still often take around two years to receive factoring in the admin behind procurement and manufacturing timelines. How do you plan ahead when your funding is this uncertain? When it’s allowed to become a bargaining chip?
when the evening service on your bus route gets cut in november, just remember: julie fahey just saved you two dollars starting in 2027 on a tax you didn’t know existed so she could get zero extra republican votes on a transportation funding bill
not sure you can call it a sneak by the republicans when it was proposed by the democratic speaker of the house
I maintain that the legislature could pass a bill to raise the cap on the rate of the trimet payroll tax during the short session but nobody else seems be looking into it
unclear that two years of insufficient temporary funding will make any difference to transit agencies considering cuts because they have a long term budget imbalance. democratic leadership just cut the legs out from a fix that could have held us over until the next long session
now to take a big sip of water and look up what the republican party is doing to the OHP budget
here’s how I think it went down: DAN RYAN: I can’t decide what my walk up song should be, kezia can you help me? KEZIA WANNER, NOT LOOKING UP FROM A YOUTUBE SHORT ON HER PHONE ABOUT HOW GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE SENT TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS: I have the perfect idea
"my pronouns are jesus loves you" was a highlight for me
watching the scores of cranks lined up to testify against ODOT funding and thinking about how democratic leadership has thoroughly demoralized their transportation advocate allies while legitimizing the exact arguments republicans are now making by attacking universal preschool
not at the moment, I'd probably look at city council results if I was trying to figure out primary targets
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gotta figure out how to turn this into a state legislature primary revolt
this is the song where the amoral antagonist of the musical decides he wants to go into politics because he discovers a passion for backroom decisionmaking
www.oregonlive.com/pacific-nort... the article for the curious
what can you even say
I’m not the devoted dropout watcher in general but it’s worth it for game changer
it’s a subliminal message that you should just watch CURE instead
I have bad news about obama
there’s a bar I like on belmont with a giant schlitz mural, good stuff. important reminder about a key fact: portland is just a better milwaukee
catching up on game changer and would like to say ally beardsley if you have questions about robert’s rules of order my DMs are open
not even the champaign of beers?
prole 🫵
the actual difference between proletariat and PMC is if you think this is based on the milwaukee tool logo or the miller high life logo
it’s a big problem that the “most avid supporters” have to focus on winning over marginal legislative votes who are pretty ambivalent about if this should pass at all and very scared about new taxes (not really a good or well supported view imo but that’s where we are)
The responses to the proposed transportation package can be grouped into several different camps. I think it’s illuminating to look at what those are. First, the most avid supporters: Kotek, many Dem legislators, freight industry leaders, ODOT staff and unions (who want to keep their jobs).
we did sort of famously try to do that in US cities in the 70s and 80s and it was not a smashing success for working people
in portland, our boring centrist candidates chose logos that are bad in unremarkable ways
this is such a shockingly bad campaign logo. every time I see it I can’t believe it’s actively being used by a well funded incumbent in a major US city
I’m fun to watch movies with. like longlegs, a movie about an FBI agent solving murders committed by a serial killer who never physically touches his victims
what was the excused/unexcused absence breakdown for the quorum votes yesterday? can you find that on OLIS?
at parties, I am known for making jokes that are actually funny
he shed his skin and slithered away into a sewer grate
it’s an old joke, I’ve heard it before!
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longlegs does not kill with a knife. it’s kind of the entire point of the movie
I had to stop saying that portland has the only BRT line in the world with an at-grade freight rail crossing because I learned on here that madison also has one
big problem with this is that a US transit agency that could build actually good BRT could also build actually good light rail. it’s not like the BRT we’re building in most places is cost effective or offers rail-like service
I am also doing that, I just sometimes worry we’re not all processing this news cycle in the same way
you should consider taking a break from the internet. it doesn’t seem like you are engaging with this subject in a healthy way
not persuaded anything noteworthy is happening to trump. he does this sometimes. you all are terminally online, I know you must remember him occasionally going awol in the first term too
this is one way to put it
brah-zee is the way
as an abundance advocate, I believe we can make tacos and margs affordable through supply side interventions rather than redistribution
Was rummaging through old articles and found this one of Demetre Daskalakis. Apparently, back in 2013, he went to New York City's gay sex clubs and bathhouses and administered meningitis vaccines and helped beat an outbreak.
two endorsed, four total members on council fyi
is this the first major congressional candidate to be radicalized by andor?
here’s the official announcement. how much is trimet spending to put PPB on buses while the countdown clock is ticking for service cuts in november? news.trimet.org/2025/08/trim...
I think data from existing riders is better at least because it reflects real experience with the transit system
I’m not a fan of surveying non riders because they tend to believe a lot of different things about why they don’t ride transit but it invariably comes down to this
hundreds of transit riders surveyed by portland DSA say: no to more cops, yes to more buses
I wish!
is this carcassonne with trains 👁️👁️
if they’re similar to the newer cars they have in the midwest it shouldn’t be too bad, had a totally fine trip on one of those recently
lol he did not
the new acela trains look cool. I should plan a trip to the northeast youtu.be/qHyFy6MJCYo?...
would say the current consensus (no transit, no tolling, urban growth boundary expansion, freeway widening) is solidly pro-congestion
Apparently I'm not the only Portlander wondering why there are so many spiders building webs outside my house right now www.reddit.com/r/askportlan...
